Quotes About Analysis

Sometimes her heart and head are invaded by upheavals, analyses, syntheses, wrenching turmoil, bright hopes, crushed expectations, precipices around which thought wanders shivering and dazed, unable to make sense of anything. (Wartime Notebooks)

Everything always bears looking into, astonishing as that fact is.

Fact explains nothing. On the contrary, it is fact that requires explanation.

Everything you do in life use percentage as your god.

Ce-mi place mie este s? citesc romanele, nu s? le fac autopsia.

form census," a report on

Beware of men with theories that explain everything.

Faithfully he followed the pattern of the scientist determined to interpret the facts to suit the theory.

Simply, a complaint attacks the problem, whereas a criticism attacks the person.

The unfolding scene was a semiotician's fantasia.

Why did the IPCC so quickly and uncritically accept the Mann et al hockey stick analysis when it first appeared? I cannot help but conclude that it's because they wanted to believe it.

the fact that the climate models do not reliably model the real climate.

I hate anything superficial. But I will take the book and look at it, and tell you what I think of the writing.

And this real-world approach is called the dollar-weighted return.

A lot of brilliant people are terrible investors. The reason is that they don't have the ability to make decisions with limited information. By the time you get all the information, everyone else knows it, and you no longer have the edge.

That's obvious, right? And there have been recent studies, including one by Vanguard in 2012, showing that in rolling ten-year periods over the past 80 years in the US, UK, and Australian stock markets, lump-sum investing has outperformed dollar-cost averaging more than two-thirds of the time.

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If we ought to philosophize we ought to philosophize, and if we ought not to philosophize we ought to philosophize ; in either case, therefore, we ought to philosophize. For if philosophy exists we ought certainly to philosophize, because philosophy exists ; and if it does not exist, even so we ought to examine why it does not exist, and in examining this we shall be philosophizing, because examination is what makes philosophy.

For we do not think that we know a thing until we are acquainted with its primary conditions or first principles, and have carried our analysis as far as its simplest elements. Plainly therefore in the science of Nature, (15) as in other branches of study, our first task will be to try to determine what relates to its principles.

As in other departments of science, so in politics, the compound should always be resolved into the simple elements or least parts of the whole.

During my sessions with Dr. Morse, I concluded that somebody had been messing with my head during those early years and they left footprints on my brain. I have spent almost as much time on Seventh-Day Adventists in my analysis as I have on my mother. I am willing to bet that this place was responsible for many of my hang-ups.

They could never guess that their minds were being probed, their bodies mapped, their reactions studied, their potentials evaluated.

And sometimes, dispassionately, they had to weed.

One does not replace a blown fuse-until one knows just why it has blown